Ben Bernanke Quotes

If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

Ben Bernanke

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• I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Skin

• So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Black
  • Courage
  • Brother

• At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Long
  • School
  • Art

• I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Drawing
  • Ties
  • Keeps

• There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Chances
  • Second
  • Middle East

• One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Kids

• CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Company
  • Name

• The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Good
  • Real
  • Bad

• Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Military
  • Humor
  • Down

• 'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Unfriendly

• Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Important
  • Live

• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Betrayal

• The best way to minimize disagreement is to make sure that all the stakeholders are in the room.

  

  Cheryl Yeoh

• I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Time

• It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.

  

  Chris Borland
  • War
  • Football
  • Brain

• I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Superhero

• In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

  

  Aron Nimzowitsch
  • King
  • Endgame
  • Middlegame

• The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I shop more than most women.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Women
  • More
  • Most

• Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Intellectual
  • Ethical
  • Nuisance

• [The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.

  

  Morris Kline
  • Understanding
  • Teacher
  • Students

• If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Event
  • Federal Reserve
  • Cliff